Word: melded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Handicap number two to the Mastedens was the battered equipment provided them by the Weld Boat Club. It is a testament to Ducey's coaching skill that he managed to meld a first class crew while using a million of decrepit, disregarded versify shells and cars...
...game uses a double deck with four jokers-108 cards. The jokers and all deuces are wild. Red treys are bonus cards, worth 100 extra points. Black treys, by contrast, are purely defensive cards, and can be melded only when the player goes out at the end of a game. In the scoring, a canasta (literally, basket) is a seven-card meld, and if a player makes it the hard way (using no wild cards), the bonus is 500 points. Scoring can run into the thousands in a single hand; 5,000 points is game. In most forms of rummy...
Points & Checks. Bidding is based on the number of points that a player can meld. Melds in Check include: four cards of a kind in different suits (four aces, 100); a flush (ace to ten in one suit), 150; a "marriage" (KQ of a suit), 20; a "pinochle" (Spade Q and Diamond J), 40. Bidding starts at 200 points, is raised in units of ten or more. A hand must be bid unless the player has no "marriage." A game ends when one team scores 1,000 points- but the team to win is the one with the most "checks...
...TIME cited only the "notable" cine-versions of the Old Horrifier. There have been others, among them the King Baggot version which left its mark on Reader Brace's moppethood. A crawly two-reeler made in 1913, it used the camera dissolve process to meld blue-eyed Mr. Baggot into horrendous Mr. Hyde. Critics, as well as small boys, were scared. Actor Baggot survived his ordeal to make more than 300 pictures, eventually became a director. When last seen on celluloid, he was playing the part of a perfectly normal doorman this year in Come Live With...